Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Shadow of a Secret Nuclear Facility - Couverture souple

Iversen, Kristen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099571854 ISBN 13 : 9780099571858

Editeur : Vintage, 2013

Synopsis

It is the early 1950s. Kristen Iversen is enjoying a carefree childhood surrounded by desert and mountains. But just a few miles down the road, the US government decides to build a secret nuclear weapons facility at Rocky Flats.

Kirsten and her siblings jump streams, ride horses, live a happy outdoors life. But beneath this veneer her family is quietly falling apart. Her father drinks, her mother copes.

And in a series of fires, accidents and other catastrophic leaks, Rocky Flats nuclear plant is spewing an invisible cocktail of the most dangerous substances on earth into this pristine landscape. The ground, the air and the water are all alive with radiation.

The years that follow will bring protests, investigations, denials, cover-ups, threats and lies. And then, one after another, people start to fall ill.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kristen Iversen teaches creative writing at the University of Memphis, where she lives with her two sons.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0099571854
• ISBN 13: 9780099571858
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416
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• Personne responsable: non disponible